▸ the year you arrived
1987
🎉 Happy Birthday! 🎉
You will be 39 this year — a child of the '80s.
The song that ruled the year you arrived
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Top of your year, by vibe
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Top 10 of 1987
- 1
Walk Like an Egyptian
The Bangles
- 2
Alone
Heart
- 3
Shake You Down
Gregory Abbott
- 4
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Whitney Houston
- 5
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
Starship
- 6
C'est La Vie
Robbie Nevil
- 7
Here I Go Again
Whitesnake
- 8
The Way It Is
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
- 9
Shakedown
Bob Seger
- 10
Livin' on a Prayer
Bon Jovi
Your stats
Your generation
Millennial
1987 belonged to
Madonna
4 year-end chart hits
🔙 The world you were born into
The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.
🎬 Set the scene
1987 smelled like screen static, warm sidewalks, a Fudge Stripe cookie, and a can of Hawaiian Punch.
🎬 At the movies
📼 Saturday cartoons
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe👕 tee →
- ThunderCats👕 tee →
- G.I. Joe👕 tee →
- The Smurfs👕 tee →
- The Real Ghostbusters👕 tee →
- DuckTales👕 tee →
- Inspector Gadget
- Voltron👕 tee →
- Muppet Babies
- Alvin and the Chipmunks
How well do you remember 1987?
7 quick questions — the songs, the artists, the year. No cheating. 😏
💬 Memories from 1987
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